Devlog #3 — 30 min of app polish

ok so i had like half an hour and instead of doing something smart i went through the apps that looked kinda rough in screenshots lol

Browser

it was opening hacker news on launch which felt weird. ripped that out. now it just shows a blank “ztionix browser” home screen until you actually type a url. added a home button too so you can get back without refreshing the whole window.

Calculator

small thing but it was bugging me. the 0 button text was sitting on the left side of the button and the display felt cramped. threw some padding on the grid and centered everything with flex. operators get a little gold highlight on hover now so it matches the rest of the os.

Music → ZMusic

renamed it and rebuilt the layout. sidebar for playlists (library + downloads), track list in the middle, player bar stuck to the bottom. volume slider lives in the bar now instead of floating in the middle of the screen. imported tracks dedupe so you dont get rick ross twice unless you really want that.

Paint

the eraser was leaving these ugly gray trails because it was using destination-out instead of just painting the actual canvas color (#1a1a1e). fixed that. also added rect/circle tools and made the brush size slider actually show the px value. feels way more usable now.

still need to get this hosted somewhere public but the apps themselves feel way less janky now. login is still just click enter, no password — so once its live anyone can hop straight in.

next up probably deployment + maybe terminal stuff. but honestly the os is in a good spot for submission now.

— ander